Title and Deed at Edinburgh

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Gare St Lazare Ireland are bringing Title and Deed by Will Eno to Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We need your help to do this.

Title and Deed was made in 2011 with funding from our friends and sponsors, people who have liked our work and who have generously wanted to support our work. Now we ask you to join us on the show’s continued journey.

Assembly Hall in Edinburgh have kindly invited us to perform at Rainy Hall for the 3 weeks of the festival. This is an amazing opportunity to perform at one of Edinburgh's most prestigious venues and, as we are an unfunded company, we are asking you to help us to cover costs for marketing, accommodation and travel.

This is a brilliant and groundbreaking new play and we feel it has to be seen in Edinburgh. We aim to invite as many international presenters as possible. Having toured already to over 80 cities in 25 countries with our work, we have a long list of them! We know the value of playing Edinburgh! Our previous performances there with Molloy and First Love by Samuel Beckett yielded countless invitations to perform around the globe.

Will Eno is a major new voice in the American theatre. He wrote Title and Deed for Gare St Lazare having followed the company's Beckett work over many years and has become a great friend of the company. Please take a look at the Youtube Video of him speaking about how the play.

IN IRELAND?You can see Title and Deed at The Everyman Theatre Cork from July 10-12 2014.

IN CALIFORNIA?You can see Title and Deed at Rubicon Theatre, Ventura from July 24 - 27 2014.

Title and Deed facts.

It premiered at Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2011.

It was conceived in New York during Culture Ireland’s Imagine Ireland year in 2011 when Will came to our production of The End by Samuel Beckett.

A year later we ran the show for six weeks in New York, in a co-production with Signature Theatre Company, and the show was listed in the top 5 Best Plays of 2012 by both The New York Times and The New Yorker Magazine.

In the Sunday Independent, Emer O'Kelly described the show as “Something very special indeed” which is exactly what we feel about it.

New York Times critic, Charles Isherwood described the show as “A haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile, performed by the marvellous Irish actor Conor Lovett.”

Will Eno has been described variously as “A wordsmith. An original, A maverick.” by Lyn Gardner in The Guardian.

His latest play The Open House just won Best New Play in both the off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Awards and the Village Voice’s Obie Awards.

His current Broadway production of The Realistic Joneses stars Toni Collette, Marisa Tomei, Michael C. Hall and Tracy Letts. If you’re in New York GO AND SEE IT!

PRESS ON TITLE AND DEED IN NEW YORK

"Leaves you happily word-drunk! Gorgeously and inventively wrought. Haunting and often fiercely funny. Performed by the marvellous Irish actor Conor Lovett."

New York Times.

"Daring, spectacular and hilarious. Stage poetry of a high order. Elegantly directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett." New Yorker Magazine.

rewards

Fund €10+

Our Thanks and your name listed as a supporter on the Gare St Lazare Ireland site and a Title and Deed souvenir postcard mailed to you from Edinburgh.

Fund €25+

Our Thanks as above AND a Title and Deed postcard mailed to you from Edinburgh and a Title and Deed poster signed by cast and crew.

Fund €25+

Our Thanks and a Title and Deed souvenir postcard mailed to you from Edinburgh and AND we'll send you an email containing a private link to watch an exclusive 15 minute extract of Title and Deed in performance during its off-Broadway run in New York in 2012.

Fund €50+

Our Thanks AND a poster as above AND a copy of the audio CD of Molloy by Samuel Beckett. Molloy is the show we first played at Edinburgh in 1997 which kickstarted Gare St Lazare Ireland.

18 Available

Fund €100+

Our Thanks AND a T&D poster AND a Molloy CD as above AND 2 tickets to a performance of Title and Deed in Edinburgh in August combined with the opportunity for us to thank you in person after the show.

14 Available

Fund €100+

Our Thanks AND a T&D poster AND a Molloy CD AND one of our gorgeous limited-edition Waiting For Godot litho-print posters designed especially by Caman & Co for the Dublin Theatre Festival last year.

9 Available

Fund €250+

Our Thanks AND a T&D poster AND a Molloy CD AND one of our gorgeous limited-edition Waiting For Godot litho-print posters designed especially by Caman & Co for the Dublin Theatre Festival last year AND 2 tickets to see Title and Deed in Edinburgh PLUS we get to thank you in person after the show.

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Fund €500+

Our Thanks AND a Title and Deed poster AND 2 tickets to a performance at Edinburgh AND a Waiting For Godot limited edition poster AND renowned Beckett actor Conor Lovett will record an mp3 reading of up to 3 pages from anywhere in Samuel Beckett's canon for you personally.

5 Available

Fund €500+

Our Thanks AND a Title and Deed poster AND 2 tickets to a performance AND a Waiting For Godot limited edition poster AND a copy of Title and Deed by Will Eno published by Oberon Books and signed by the playwright.

10 Available

Fund €1000+

Our Thanks AND a Title and Deed poster AND 2 tickets to a performance AND a Waiting For Godot poster AND a signed copy of Title and Deed by Will Eno AND and an appearance by actor Conor Lovett at your book-club/local-school/theatre class or similar event to speak about his experience of solo performing.

4 Available

Fund €2000+

Our Thanks AND a Title and Deed poster AND 6 tickets to a performance AND a Waiting For Godot poster AND a signed copy of Title and Deed by Will Eno AND a presentation of a non-commercial Gare St Lazare solo performance (Beckett/Moby Dick/Title and Deed) in the setting of your choice for up to 150 people (you provide accommodation). For example at your home, your company, your local arts centre or school.

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activity

Oops, Here's the Youtube link promised in the last update.

Update posted on Wednesday 18th June '14 @ 10:06:12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1LfK3083LU
Enjoy!

Title and Deed Update

Update posted on Wednesday 18th June '14 @ 10:06:05

We have passed the 25% mark on our campaign and are very excited to keep the momentum up for the final two weeks of the campaign.
Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed thus far. Here's a video of Will Eno speaking about how Title and Deed came about.
If you have a chance please spread the word for us.

Up and running!

Update posted on Wednesday 4th June '14 @ 02:06:33

And we're off... Thanks so much to those who have funded Title and Deed at Edinburgh already. Please keep spreading the word.